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A few tips for using your fish finder when ice fishing

Are you feeling a bit puzzled as to how you can get the most of your fish finder while you’re doing your ice fishing? If that’s the case, we recommend having a look at the following tips and tricks as they address several critical factors that should be considered when you’re on the ice.

Learn to read a flasher fish finder

If the model you own is a flasher, you need to learn the basics of understanding the things that are displayed on the flasher screen. In most cases, such units will offer you good information with regard to the depth of the readings as well as the bottom. The circle represents the distance between the top of the water and the bottom of the water. The column makes it possible for the user to look at his or her lure come down the column using a green color marking. Once the lure has reached a certain depth, it’s likely that it’s observed by a fish. If the target is interested in your lure, it will be displayed as a line that will come close to the bait until it becomes a thicker green line. Once the fish and the lure become a single line, all you have to do is pull them up. An LCD flasher mode also exists in several classic fish finders that you’d typically use during the summer. Humminbird and Garmin sell several models that are worth their weight in gold simply because there’s no limitation as to what season you can use them in.

Choose the best of both worlds

If you still haven’t bought a fish finder and are considering selecting a flasher or a 2D sonar, perhaps it’s important to point out that the second are highly recommended. These are the only units that can allow you to visualize a graph of what is going on under the ice. The capabilities of a 2D sonar are close to infinite as you’ll be able to utilize the same device under many circumstances. You’ll also have the freedom to select the right sonar angle depending on what you have in mind and the amount of detail you may need.

Take advantage of a 2D sonar

Another tip we can give you is that you should try to compare the two images that the device can show you at the same time. You can see both the flasher mode and the 2D mode on the same screen, thus getting a better picture of what’s happening beneath you. If you have no intention getting a hefty model that weighs too many pounds and makes it difficult for you to use it both in the summertime, perhaps you’d benefit from using a model such as Fish Hunter. When used in ice fishing mode, this type of fish finder can allow you to look both at the graph and at the actual visual representation of the environment underneath the ice.